Solely making beings turn about and abundantly say the nembutsu The quotation of the verse that Tz'u-Min composed in the Essentials of Faith Alone ends with the line: This was Tz'u-Min (680 - 748) who is famous for 'carrying coals to Newcastle' by serving as a Pure Land missionary in India. Fa-chao was a very successful advocate of Pure Land Buddhism in his time and was a second generation disciple of the author of the second verse that Shinran discusses in this booklet. He selects three liturgical verses, the first of which was written by the Chinese Pure Land Master Fa-chao (766 - 822). In fact, Shinran's Notes are not a commentary on the entire text. The Essentials on Faith Alone was composed by Seikaku, who was, with Shinran, a disciple of Honen Shonin. Nevertheless, this little pamphlet exlpores some of the most enduring and powerful realisations to emerge from the Pure Land tradition. Perhaps Shinran's most eloquent exposition of the significance of this idea can be found in the Yuishinsho Mon'i (Notes on the Essentials of Faith Alone), although the metaphor of water entering the ocean of the Vow does not appear there. It was mainly Master T'an-luan who inspired Shinran Shonin's recurring theme of the 'waters of good and evil' entering the ocean of the Compasionate Vow of Amida Buddha. Transformed into the mind of great compassion. Of Amida's Vow of wisdom, there are immediately When the waters-the minds, good and evil, of foolish beings.
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